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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : 28/10/2004</div>
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      <b>stripblanks</b> -  strips leading and trailing
  blanks (and tabs) of strings</p>
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        <tt>txt=stripblanks(txt[,tabs])  </tt>
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          <b>txt</b>
        </tt>: string or matrix of strings</li>
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          <b>tabs</b>
        </tt>: if TRUE then tabs are also stripped (default value is FALSE)</li>
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    stripblanks strips leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings</p>
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a='  123   ';
'!'+a+'!'
'!'+stripblanks(a)+'!'
a=['  123   ',' xyz']
strcat(stripblanks(a))
 
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